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A similar Claims Board claim presented at this same meeting by Ms. Georgia Thompson, required only 16 hours of preparation by a qualified attorney, in contrast to the 94.2 hours spent by Attorney Olson and his firm. Sixteen hours appears to have been adequate. The Board recognizes that Mr. Hicks' claim involved the additional step of submitting briefs to the Hearing Examiner regarding the Board's authority to award attorney's fees in addition to statutorily capped compensation, and therefore concludes that additional time to prepare the claim was necessary. The Board concludes that doubling the time it took a qualified attorney to prepare a similar claim for the Board could reasonably account for the extra effort necessary to prepare briefs for the Hearing Examiner. Accordingly, the Board concludes that 32 hours is a reasonable number of hours for which to compensate Mr. Olson. The Board allocates these 32 hours proportionally across the years in which the work was performed, based on the original annual hours reported by Mr. Olson. The Board again applies the hourly rate provided in the EAJA and adjusts it for inflation.
Therefore, the Board concludes that Mr. Olson will be paid in the reduced amount of $6,175.70, calculated as follows:
The Board further concludes, under authority of §
16.007(6m), Stats., that payments for Mr. Hurley and Mr. Olson should be made from the Claims Board appropriation §
20.505 (4)(d), Stats.
The Board concludes:
That payment of the following amounts to the following entities on behalf of the claimant from the following statutory appropriations is justified under s. 16.007, Stats:
Dated at Madison, Wisconsin this 4th day of December, 2007.
Robert Hunter
Chair, Representative of the Attorney General
Cari Anne Renlund
Secretary, Representative of the Secretary of Administration
Nate Zolik
Representative of the Governor
Mark Miller
Senate Finance Committee
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Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Representative Gunderson added as a cosponsor of
Senate Bill
337
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By Patrick E. Fuller, chief clerk.
Mr. President:
I am directed to inform you that the Assembly has passed and asks concurrence in:
Assembly Bill 100
Assembly Bill 209
Assembly Bill 334
Assembly Bill 335
Assembly Bill 337
Assembly Bill 361
Assembly Bill 464
Assembly Bill 483
Assembly Bill 499
Assembly Bill 580
Assembly Bill 581
Assembly Bill 590
Adopted and asks concurrence in:
Assembly Joint Resolution
5
Assembly Joint Resolution
34
Amended and concurred in as amended:
Senate Bill 1
(Assembly amendment 1 adopted)
Concurred in:
Senate Bill 249
Senate Bill 332
Senate Joint Resolution
73
Senate Amendments 1, 3, 13, 14, 19 and 21 to Assembly Bill 207
